MI5’s first independent spy alert names a Chinese institute funding UK research, just as Holyrood tells Scottish universities to keep China links with tighter.
Weather Watchers caught a 2°C Scottish sunrise on 8 October, the same clear night that leaked heat, hours before rain and wind arrived.
EarthCARE’s lidar confirmed Anak Krakatau’s 15 km ash cap for aviation, then its radar caught large particles still aloft 200 km from the vent.
Scotland puts the whole country in a bluetongue zone from 3 October, dropping licences and betting vaccines can cover the extra spread risk.
Syracuse geology students reached Siccar Point in James Hutton's 300th year, walking the unconformity that still trains the science in person.
NASA’s Goddard team sampled 1.2-billion-year-old Stoer rocks in Scotland to test whether Jezero’s reduction spots need microbes, or only chemistry.
Ribose can dissolve calcium borate minerals and keep boron in water, a UNSW study finds, so organics were changing rocks before life.
Scotland’s Programme for Government funds a drugs emergency plan but names almost no alcohol prevention tools, despite a £5-10 billion harm bill.
Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak has reached 903 cases and four deaths the CDC still will not fully match, with most cases in two counties.
AbbVie, argenx, Lundbeck and Takeda are paying Ginkgo and Apheris to build a 10,000-antibody developability set after public models stalled at 246 sequences.